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I can't tell you how much I appreciate your kindness,thought I was going to get slammed lol I try not too ask too many questions,i don't think it goes over that well,many ppl here have been quiet helpful,but I do get the feeling this is a tight knit group of regulars who come here to chat and check in each day with their friends.
I would love to see heather post.

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The Living Room Board is where people go to chat and check in with each other on non-IBS subjects. It keeps the non-IBS stuff off the other, more technical Boards. I don't know if I'd call it a tight-knit group. There are people who've been on the Boards together since Moses was a pup and naturally some have become good friends, but anyone can post over there and people float in and out all the time.

The Diet Board and the Recipe Board are more technical and they're mostly business. Everyone who posts here tries to be helpful, as I think you've already found out. I think of these two Boards as being like working in an office and The Living Room as the local bar where everyone goes after work.

I don't know much about the other Boards, although I do pop my head into the hypno Board from time to time. It's always so soothing and peaceful over there.

As for asking questions, that's what the Boards are here for, but there are two things you can do to make the process go more smoothly. First, read the sticky posts at the top of the Diet Board. They have lots of useful information, including telling you how to Search for stuff. It's astonishing how much has already been covered in earlier posts. My very first post was a question about cornmeal - it never occurred to me something like that would already have been talked about but once someone suggested I do a Search, there it was.

Second, please do be sure you've read the pre-requisites Heather has laid out, so you understand the principles of Heather's Diet and aren't asking really basic questions. The classic one is "Can I eat cheese?" That really makes people crazy. We'll all start jumping up and down frothing at the mouth and screaming, "Dairy, dairy, dairy". It can be quite amusing on a slow Board day.

Oh, and people on the Diet Board don't slam. The worst you'll ever get is a "please don't do that" and even that's pretty darn rare.

HTH.

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